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1.
... Five.   12&12 p.55, Step Five
When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five.

2.
... Five.   12&12 p.55, Step Five
So intense, though, is our fear and reluctance to do this, that many A.A.'s at first try to bypass Step Five.

3.
... Five.   12&12 p.56, Step Five
Few muddled attitudes have caused us more trouble than holding back on Step Five.

4.
... Five?   12&12 p.57, Step Five
What are we likely to receive from Step Five?

5.
... Five.   12&12 p.58, Step Five
More realism and therefore more honesty about ourselves are the great gains we make under the influence of Step Five.


6.
... five.   BB p.35, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 35 in the Big Book
He did no drinking until he was thirty-five.


7.
... five, after a successful and happy business ...   BB p.32, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 32 in the Big Book
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.

8.
... five-dollar bill.   12&12 p.162, Tradition Seven
I motioned him to my inside cubicle and produced a five-dollar bill.

9.
... five-dollar gift to the slippee was an ...   12&12 p.163, Tradition Seven
I realized that my five-dollar gift to the slippee was an ego-feeding proposition, bad for him and bad for me.

10.
... five-dollar investment to fix a hangover.   12&12 p.163, Tradition Seven
I felt especially virtuous as I thought of all the ex-drunks who wouldn't even send the Foundation a dollar apiece, and here I was gladly making a five-dollar investment to fix a hangover.

11.
... five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.   12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.

12.
Five -- Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to ...   12&12 p.190, Tradition Five (Long)
Five -- Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.


13.
Five -- Each group has but one primary ...   BB p.562(564), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Five -- Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.


14.
... five hours after the market closed.   BB p.4, Bill's Story   Go to page 4 in the Big Book
It was eight o'clock -- five hours after the market closed.


15.
... five new ones were added.   BB xii, Preface   Display entire Preface
In Part III ("They Lost Nearly All"), eight stories were retained; five new ones were added.


16.
... five normal salesmen.   BB p.150, To Employers   Go to page 149 in the Big Book
There are two alcoholic employees, who produce as much as five normal salesmen.


17.
... five o'clock and it was eleven fifteen ...   BB p.179, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 179 in the Big Book
We entered her house at exactly five o'clock and it was eleven fifteen when we left.


18.
... five proposals we ask if we have ...   BB p.75, Into Action   Go to page 75 in the Big Book
Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.

19.
... five short words have been running through ...   12&12 p.142, Tradition Three
As we've been talking, five short words have been running through my mind.

20.
... five syllables.   12&12 p.67, Step Six
Consider, too, our talents for procrastination, which is really sloth in five syllables.

21.
... Five that he first actually felt the ...   12&12 p.62, Step Five
Many an A.A., once agnostic or atheistic, tells us that it was during this stage of Step Five that he first actually felt the presence of God.

22.
... Five that we inwardly knew we'd be ...   12&12 p.58, Step Five
Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it, too.

23.
... five thousand dollars to do with what ...   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
One A.A. group was given five thousand dollars to do with what it would.

24.
... Five was the answer.   12&12 p.57, Step Five
Step Five was the answer.

25.
... Five, we decided that an inventory, taken ...   12&12 p.108, Step Twelve
Looking at Step Five, we decided that an inventory, taken alone, wouldn't be enough.


26.
... five years and retired at the age ...   BB p.32, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 32 in the Big Book
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.


27.
... five years found he was just where ...   BB p.33, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 33 in the Big Book
But here is a man who at fifty-five years found he was just where he had left off at thirty.


28.
... five years, or hardly draw a sober ...   BB p.4, Bill's Story   Go to page 4 in the Big Book
Mercifully, no one could guess that I was to have no real employment for five years, or hardly draw a sober breath.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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